Hawaii Supreme Court Rejects 2nd Amendment, “It Goes Against Spirit of Aloha”

Hawaii. It’s a state that summons up idyllic images of paradise; clear waters, cool breezes, luau music playing gently in the distance.

Sadly, the more we learn about that state, the less we view it as a vacation getaway.

We see the government over there turning off the water right before the massive fire broke out.

Then they block the roads so that the people were stuck and died in the fire.

So I’m not all that surprised that they don’t want their citizens to carry weapons.

“Forget the 2nd Amendment,” the government says. “There’s something bigger and more powerful that trumps the 2nd Amendment!”…

“The spirit of aloha!”

Whatever the heck that means.

Apparently they’re trying to align with their old Hawaiian kingdom law.

And some HBO TV show “The Wire.”

Seriously.

These Democrats are willing to do anything, say anything with their verbal judo, twisting phrases into nonsense to sway the logically impaired, to get their way.

The Hawaii Supreme Court literally invoking the “spirit of Aloha” doctrine to supersede the 2nd Amendment is not something I had on my 2024 bingo card.

And it’s only February. pic.twitter.com/dERpDZ2VhN

— Jenna Ellis (@JennaEllisEsq) February 9, 2024

Reuters reports on this:

Feb 8 (Reuters) – The Hawaii Supreme Court has upheld the state’s laws that generally prohibit carrying a firearm in public without a license–and in the process criticized the conservative-majority U.S. Supreme Court’s rulings that have expanded gun rights.

Justice Todd Eddins wrote in a unanimous 5-0 decision on Wednesday that under the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment, “states retain the authority to require individuals have a license before carrying firearms in public.”

The court, comprised of three appointees of Democratic governors and two Republican-appointed judges, said it disagreed with the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent rulings interpreting the right to keep and bear arms under the Second Amendment.

It expressed that disagreement as it interpreted a near-identical provision of the state’s constitution which says: “A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”

“We read those words differently than the current United States Supreme Court,” Eddins wrote. “We hold that in Hawaii there is no state constitutional right to carry a firearm in public.”

He said the right was instead “militia-centric,” as courts had long understood the Second Amendment before the U.S. Supreme Court starting in 2008 recognized an individual right to bear arms for self-defense in its District of Columbia v. Heller ruling.

“Those words do not support a right to possess lethal weapons in public for possible self-defense,” he wrote.

Hawaii’s highest court on Wednesday ruled that Second Amendment rights as interpreted by the U.S. Supreme Court do not extend to Hawaii citizens, citing the “spirit of Aloha.”

In the ruling, which was penned by Hawaii Supreme Court Justice Todd Eddins, the court determined that states “retain the authority to require” individuals to hold proper permits before carrying firearms in public. The decision also concluded that the Hawaii Constitution broadly “does not afford a right to carry firearms in public places for self defense,” further pointing to the “spirit of Aloha” and even quoting HBO’s TV drama “The Wire.”

“Article I, section 17 of the Hawaii Constitution mirrors the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution,” the Hawaii Supreme Court decision states. “We read those words differently than the current United States Supreme Court. We hold that in Hawaii there is no state constitutional right to carry a firearm in public.”

The #Hawaii #SupremeCourt just nullified the #2ndAmendment by claiming that the "Spirit of Aloha" trumps the #Constitution and #SCOTUS rulings and allows the state to ban gun possession outside the home… pic.twitter.com/v8PiMe26VO

— Max McGuire (@MaxMcGuireTX) February 8, 2024

I think Hawaii would be safer if it really was overrun with dinosaurs (that’s where they filmed Jurassic Park) instead of the Democrats running it.